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If the root of all evil is the love of money, there must have been money in the Garden of Eden, where according to Christians sin was brought into the world. With that in mind, on what day did God create money? And if it is the root of all evil I have to scratch my head and ask why he created it in the first place. Doh.

If the root of all evil is the love of money, there must have been money in the Garden of Eden, where according to Christians sin was brought into the world. With that in mind, on what day did God create money? And if it is the root of all evil I have to scratch my head and ask why he created it in the first place. Doh.

So where did it start. Probably been around for ever and relates to survival. However, it got a significant boost when Empires where thought a great idea. Cyrus the Great, Alexander the Great, Agrippa 1 the Great, Constantine the Great. Self service and power on steroids. Now these are roots of evil, I'd say :-)

According to all I read, the notion of God is supposed to equate to everything Good. I adopted the habit when writing my book. I decided to use that context as a counter position to Judaism's form of G_d which I find no rationale basis for. What all religions say is God is Go(o)d, but the history tells quite a different story. I decided it's a go(o)d form to set the correct perspective.

A better question, and answer it honestly if you can, why do you find such a benign word form so annoying?

A better question, and answer it honestly if you can, why do you find such a benign word form so annoying?

By way of analogy: Imagine a Monty Python fan who likes to insert an occasional gratuitous "ni" into his posts. If done only rarely, it could be innocuous, or even mildly amusing if done cleverly. But if done incessantly, it's just obnoxious. It doesn't matter how benign it is.

Your web book has tons and tons of wise sayings from a wide variety of people, but apparently you've never read any of them. I don't remember Confucius or Socrates or Jesus ever saying "Go forth and be a dick."

Nam indeed cannot control the "professor" label by his name. And apparently you can't control anything, given how small you are.

I'd give you a -1, but you're already a pox on the system. Take a flying leap.

Your web book has tons and tons of wise sayings from a wide variety of people, but apparently you've never read any of them. I don't remember Confucius or Socrates or Jesus ever saying "Go forth and be a dick."

Nam indeed cannot control the "professor" label by his name. And apparently you can't control anything, given how small you are.

I'd give you a -1, but you're already a pox on the system. Take a flying leap.

Okay so here is the deal, the Bible was written long ago in a number of different languages. I would like to suggest that by the time we have received the Bible it has been translated through many languages and many generations. To think that it is word for word accurate is silly. To believe that it has remained generally intact is much more probable and probably more likely. I don't mean to infer that the text has changed much, just that the wording has. For example. The black cat jumped in the pool. VS There was this crazy cat, which was black, and it did the stupidest thing I have ever seen. It jumped into my pool! While the wording is different the premise is the same. So if we are really arguing semantics over words we need to find a few Scholars who speak things like 2000 year old Hebrew.(Yes I did steal some of this from an earlier post I wrote)

How this relates to our topic now: I viewed 10 different translations(there were/are lots more) 3 of them said "For the love of money is the root of all evil" and 7 said "For the love of money is a root of all sorts(kinds) of evil". The key difference being the word sorts/kinds. Meaning that the obsession with money usually leads to a dark and sad place, especially for those who yearn for it and don't have it. Just look at how many wealthy famous people commit suicide.(Not intending to infer anything leaning one way or the other here) What we have is two sides arguing over semantics. In my opinion this argument could have been crafted at a much higher level and created decent debate.

If the root of all evil is the love of money, there must have been money in the Garden of Eden, where according to Christians sin was brought into the world. With that in mind, on what day did God create money? And if it is the root of all evil I have to scratch my head and ask why he created it in the first place. Doh.

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"A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all - and more amusing." --Screwtape--

Okay so here is the deal, the Bible was written long ago in a number of different languages. I would like to suggest that by the time we have received the Bible it has been translated through many languages and many generations. To think that it is word for word accurate is silly. To believe that it has remained generally intact is much more probable and probably more likely. I don't mean to infer that the text has changed much, just that the wording has. For example. The black cat jumped in the pool. VS There was this crazy cat, which was black, and it did the stupidest thing I have ever seen. It jumped into my pool! While the wording is different the premise is the same. So if we are really arguing semantics over words we need to find a few Scholars who speak things like 2000 year old Hebrew.(Yes I did steal some of this from an earlier post I wrote)

How this relates to our topic now: I viewed 10 different translations(there were/are lots more) 3 of them said "For the love of money is the root of all evil" and 7 said "For the love of money is a root of all sorts(kinds) of evil". The key difference being the word sorts/kinds. Meaning that the obsession with money usually leads to a dark and sad place, especially for those who yearn for it and don't have it. Just look at how many wealthy famous people commit suicide.(Not intending to infer anything leaning one way or the other here) What we have is two sides arguing over semantics. In my opinion this argument could have been crafted at a much higher level and created decent debate.

If the root of all evil is the love of money, there must have been money in the Garden of Eden, where according to Christians sin was brought into the world. With that in mind, on what day did God create money? And if it is the root of all evil I have to scratch my head and ask why he created it in the first place. Doh.

The root of all evil is this thing called ego. Money is a derivative issue and symbolizes greed. You've still got lust, envy, anger, lies, some priests etc ...

Ego motivates a lot of the individual achievements that make the whole human species so amazing in science, sport, arts, politics, and business. Try running a sales team full of people low on ego You can train people to listen and respond to customers, but without strong ego they won't negotiate effectively and have trouble bouncing back from rejection. On the cutting edge of vital research - what could we expect from a research team whose leader doesn't yearn to be the first to publish or the first to discredit or better earlier discoveries? Would art be as good if signing it was outlawed?

Yes there are negative (evil) aspects to ego, not the least of which is religious know-it-alls whose primary hope to satisfy their hunger for respect is spruiking 'personal insights' into the thinking and ways of invisible deities – prophets, clergy and apologists parasiting off the imaginary glory and powers of the mysterious invisible and unverifiable, all for their own little slice of ego-heaven right here on this earth.